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When I installed the | When I installed the Collusion add-on and browsed around eight websites, I found out that 89 third-party applications were also accessing my personal data. | ||
Those third-party sites are things like social-networking buttons, embedded scripts for online ads, cookies tracking user activity to create personalized features, widgets, and so on. They aren't necessarily a bad thing, but they know a lot about me and thats scary. | Those third-party sites are things like social-networking buttons, embedded scripts for online ads, cookies tracking user activity to create personalized features, widgets, and so on. They aren't necessarily a bad thing, but they know a lot about me and thats scary. | ||
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SEARCH ENGINE FOR THIRD PARTY TRACKERS
When I installed the Collusion add-on and browsed around eight websites, I found out that 89 third-party applications were also accessing my personal data.
Those third-party sites are things like social-networking buttons, embedded scripts for online ads, cookies tracking user activity to create personalized features, widgets, and so on. They aren't necessarily a bad thing, but they know a lot about me and thats scary.
This project is about the data that the trackers are pilling up for every person. The goal was to create something like a phonebook for all the trackers who know you on the web.
